Word: second-guessing
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...Burger Court has been just as activist as the Warren Court, willing to second-guess other branches of Government and read new meaning into the Constitution. But unlike the Warren Court, which had a clear moral vision, especially toward the havenots, the Burger Court has lacked any coherent overarching theme. Says Duke University Law School Professor William Van Alstyne: "Many cases are just a muddle. The legal tests being developed now are as complicated and picayune as the Internal Revenue Code...
...keep up with would-be Olympians these days. Last week in Los Angeles, two federal judges addressed cases brought by athletes who claimed that they were not being allowed to compete in their specialties because of discrimination both sexual and professional. In each case the court declined to second-guess the various athletic regulatory bodies that establish and, ever so slowly, change the rules. But the two suits have raised fears among Olympic officials that even before the Games begin, never will a host country's courts have been asked to settle so many Olympic problems...
...always dangerous to second-guess IBM, and nobody is about to write off the PCjr. IBM has just begun to roll out the Peanut's estimated $40 million advertising and promotion budget, and it may yet correct some of the machine's deficiencies. Says Bill Wallace, co-president of the Dallas-based Compco computer-store chain: "IBM will do whatever fine tuning it has to do to make its product viable." In fact, says Ulric Weil, a computer analyst at Morgan Stanley, IBM could sell as many as half a million PCjrs by year...
...police waited, and when they saw Bowden get into the car, leaped out and shot him dead-within "three to five seconds," according to a reporter who was with the police. But the car was not the getaway car. Bowden had no criminal record. And at 5 ft. 4½ in. and 180 Ibs., he fitted the description of the tall, lean robbers in only one way: he was black. Despite the reluctance of citizens to second-guess the police, who continued to insist that Bowden was a criminal, an all-white jury found the killing to be a "wrongful...
...over all of its outtakes (sound and picture footage that has been edited out). As the outtakes were shown to the jury and to TV audiences watching the trial live on Cable News Network, viewers got a unique chance to see how a story is put together and to second-guess CBS's editorial judgment. They watched the Rather team coax witnesses, stage a confrontation and repeat questions until it got the best camera angles or the most vividly phrased answers; they heard Rather testify that people who do not return phone calls are probably guilty...